Experts warn that Australia's housing affordability crisis will get worse, and may create an eastern seaboard pocketed with ghettos that will lock the have-nots out of housing.
Do you think the housing crisis spells the end of Australia as an egalitarian society?

"I have given everything, body and soul to this job. I love the job, I love what we achieved. I couldn't have given any more than I have given over the past eight years to this state," Mr Bracks told a crowded press conference this morning.

What do you make of the announcement? How do you rate his time as leader? Will he be missed? What will he be remembered for? Who should succeed him? Have your say.
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Yet again, the Tour de France has been plagued by doping scandals. Is there too much drug use in competitive sport? Can drug use in sport ever be eradicated?
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At least 44 people have been stabbed - 17 fatally - in Victoria since last July, and increasingly, teenage gangs are involved.
Groups of teens gatecrashing parties are becoming a common occurrence. Have you experienced gatecrashers? What steps should we be taking to avoid further such violence?

The Copyright Tribunal has approved an application by the Phonographic Performance Company to increase music licence fees paid to artists and record labels by nightclub venues and dance parties.
Are you prepared to pay higher cover charges at venues to cover licence fees paid to artists?